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EA's Onboard with Both Natal and the PS3 Wand

EA's John Riccitiello pegs early-to-mid 2010 as the timeframe to reveal support for Sony and Microsoft's new control systems.

A report on Eurogamer.net sees EA's head honcho John Riccitiello confirm that "early-to-mid 2010" will be the time when the company will reveal exactly how it plans to support the new motion-sensitive control systems from Microsoft and Sony.

"We're really positive on both," the silver-haired fox told money men during a Q1 financial call. "Our view is that motion-based gaming is something that is both going to drive install base, drive interest and drive growth.

"We're planning to support both," he added. "We haven't yet announced our plans to do so, but we shall do so in the right time-frame for that, which is likely to be early-to-mid-2010."

We saw a demo of EA's Burnout Paradise running with the Natal control system at E3 and our initial impressions were pretty positive.

Goodness gracious, great orbs of light.

Bryn says: We knew that EA was behind both of these new projects, but it's good to know that it'll be a little while longer before we get to see exactly how it intends to go to bat for Natal and the PS3 Wand.

Aspirations for some kind of crazy new Harry Potter wand-based first-person shooter have been buzzing through my head recently, but I put that down to a lack of sleep, too much caffeine and an unhealthy obsession with wizards.